18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel

The 18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel was a Waffen-SS panzergrenadier division of Nazi Germany that was active from 25 January 1944 to 8 May 1945. The division, named for the Nazi Party martyr Horst Wessel, was formed around a cadre from the 1st SS Infantry Brigade and included many Volksdeutsche from Hungary. The division was used for rear security duties until it was sent to the Eastern Front of World War II, with the exception of one regiment that fought the Slovak National Uprising in August 1944. The entire division would go on to fight in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, where it was destroyed in 1945.